I was able to build the gunships and ews and elites on my star bases of TEC. Will look to see if others are working as intended.

We can. Even you can with a quick edit of the gameplay.constants file. There is a line that mentions how many superweapons you can build and you can put whatever number you like.

They exist, you just can't see the nice emblem on the lower left corner of the UI to tell you how and why you are getting some of the interesting results.

I saw one or two in the 6th column but only needing 5. Will check for others.

TR and VR got some serious weapon upgrades indeed. Especially the VR with their souped up phase missiles. Look for more changes to Advent shielding to deal with that.

I've have 2 things to report and 2 questions:

1)  Might be nothing, but there was a point when my ships decided they needed to jump where I told them, then back to where they started, then back to the planet I wanted them to go to in the first place.  Only happened once that I remember, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

2)  The real issue I had was the pirates.  5 hours into a 1 vs 5 normal AI game, me as tec loyal, and one of each other faction, I was still getting low level raids.  (1-2 caps OR 1-5 frigates or cruisers)  Not that I mind the free exp and ships, since my corsevs were stealing 1-2 every other raid, but this should be looked at for the complete version.

Question 1)  Is there a way to make the game let us have 2 Titans?  I really want to have 1 for offense and one for defense of a chokepoint or my homeworld.  If you can do this, that would be awesome, but I get it if it's un-reachable.

Question 2)  More of a future concern involving the TEC Rebels.  I don't play them, but if I remember right, they can ally themselves with the Pirates, which could possibly develop into a balance issue.  You may have already thought of this, or it may not even be a problem, but again, I just thought I'd throw it out there.

-Twi

Edit:  Also, I mentioned this somewhere when Entrenchment came out, but since you guys are over-hauling the game for Rebellion anyway, Would you possibly concider adding some way for TEC to deploy mines in enemy grav wells?  Even if it's a weaker version of their normal ones, it just seems screwy to me that both other races can put them in any grav well they want, but TEC has to live there...just sayin.

Its most likely that issue found due to the radius being screwy.

Yes, yes, yes, I get it. The pirates need fixing!

There is a way but no.

Is a noted concern.

Yep, still not sure how to fix it but yes we are looking into it.

Are you sure? Its not like Ive been saying this for years now. 

Well whenever Ryat makes his 'More Powerful Pirates' ... let me know. I've got a mini-mod in mind for them. 

I like his "insanely powerful pirates that could kick the asses of 10 players going against them and not even flinch" mini mod.  Starbases with 100k+ hull points, 1k+ weapon damage...  Ah, the good old days.

I know this is entirely devoid of useful information, however.....

Any guess on why I'd be getting frequent (early) CTD's with the Alpha?  No mini dump or other error message.  You are sitting there playing along and bam, desktop.  Happens single player and multiplayer and there doesn't seem to be a common trigger. For example, one game it crashed when I tried to build a trade port on my second planet.  Reload from last save and it let me build the trade port only to crash 10 minutes later when I tried to build a titan.

No issues with DS for Diplomacy, strictly Rebellion.  Verified checksum is correct, redownloaded/reinstall the mod, clean install of Sins.  Any options settings that could be causing this or anything like that?  Playing large single system maps, 3 or less AI players.

Unwavering Belief for the Advent Rebels only has 2 levels, the researches tied to it require it to have 4.

@XavierMace - There are still a few issues to find in Alpha that cause that. We are working on it.

Will look into that thanks.

Any info I can provide to help?  It seems to happen more frequently when I play as Vasari, but that could be my imagination.

We kinda already know what is occuring. Its actually an issue connected the file that controls the way the planets occur and spawn.

LOL, I lowered my graphics settings just to see if that had any effect and I got a minidump trying to select the map to start a new game.

Alright I just want some input from the players of this mod, which ships (please name the class of the ship) would you like to see fighter-style movement from. Titans for sure will not have fighter movement.

Flak would make sense to me.  Also Light frigates and maybe Missile Frigates.  On a more specific note, I wouldn't mind the TEC Cielos being able to so they're not just sitting there getting blown up in between abilities, but I can live without that if I must. 

-Twi

Naw, only flak.

That's the only one that really even makes sense, since they have to chase the fighters and shoot them down.

as far as ships I Don't want to have the fighter movement, SCOUTS for crap sake x.x otherwise you end up needing one scout per mine to clear a minefield -.-; the long range missile frigates/illuminators and the anti-module and siege ship. and please, no capital ships. What's the point of all those weapon banks if their mainly using the forward and left/right peripheral ranges(at the very least, not the support type caps)

and that's about all I wanna keep in stationary ship movement really =/

I think I'm gonna have to more or less agree with BadTune on this one.  Most of the ships make more sense to be stationary (primarily the caps and support/long range types.  Well, and siege, since they're suppose to sit there bombing worlds.).  Which generally just leaves the Anti-SC, light frigates, and heavy cruisers and their counter parts as the logical mobile units.  Though I have also thought that it might be nice if those mobile ships also had at least one weapon on either side (well, the anti-sc already have that), just so their not *entirely* useless while they try to turn around.

I apologize if this has been asked before, but if I wanted to edit some elements of this mod, such as level of research abilities, or # of strikecraft, how would I go about doing that?  Is it something simple?

I love this mod so much that it's the only one I'm ever able to play!  But there are some parts of it that I'm just dying to edit, just to use personally. 

Scouts would be a bad Idea in mine-fields.  They would make a pass at one and set off more on their way through.

-Twi

You would need to change the files from BIN to TXT using the ConvertData file that comes in the game. Use harpo99999's tools to use that file. After that Notepad is really all you need but I recommend Notepad++ to make things easier. Others have tools that are useful as well.

...do TEC have an ability to destroy my factories without entering my gravity well?  If not, then I have a seriously annoying glitch to report here.....

-Twi

Nope, only the Vasari with the Kostaru Cannon.

Just played through a bit.  Seems to run great with no issues.

I noticed the pirate base parts added to the starbase are sort of poorly textured in comparison.  Didn't know if that was something intended or not.

It's the first time I saw a derelict shipyard.  Really well done.  They had been taken out last build I played and put back later.

I wasn't sure how yourds and Balknight's older effects would stand in Rebellion but they really do work well.  Kudos there.

Great fun to run around in.

I remember reading a long while back about the pirate starbases but how is it they get built?  I kind of assumed you'd just have the constructors on autocast but that doesn't seem to be the case.  What makes them build?

Also haven't looked through files but I loved the shaded moon texture you added.  Did you guys strip down the planet textures some or leave all the old ones in?